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"Good evening Gaston. How are you?" Art asked the young man who had swept his niece off her feet.
"Camilla Stewart, it's lovely to meet you. Y-you're Kay's cousin, aren't you?" Art let out a chuckle. "Now there's two Professor Stewarts and two Professor Newtons. It's turning into a family team, I think."
Art nodded understandingly at Paul. "Y-yes yes... well perhaps we can catch up one day, anyway. How is he?" Art was trying to get better at asking these questions. He let out a laugh. "Not a teaching kind of man?" Art could understand that. Not everyone could teach. HE let out a loud belly laugh at Paul's next comment. "Well I might make it that late... we'll see." He wiped some laughing tears from his eyes.
"Always good to see you too, Rosie." It had been a lovely Summer full of family, and that included seeing all of his brothers and nieces and nephews. AND introducing them all to little Liesel. "Ahh, well you have all term to see him in any case."
"Gran Canaria? That sounds wonderful. I went there quite a few years ago and I went scuba-diving. Did you do that?" he asked Laurel. Art had loved the clear ocean and the undersea life he saw. It wasn't usually the case that Art enjoyed being at the beach, but he had gone with his younger children, before they even started Hogwarts, and when their mother was still alive. He lost himself for a brief moment, before pulling himself back to the present moment. He beamed. "Yes, lots and lots of family time. I've been staying with my son, and helping with Liesel. She's just turned one, and she loves animals. Just like her Aunt Josie." He was going to be soaking up all the time he could with Liesel before heading back to Hogwarts, but he would try to return home on weekends when he wasn't working, and Christmas.
"Well that's wonderful Jordan, thank you!" Art really was happy about this, and he knew Josie would be too. "She's 25. She's been at Oxford University studying the muggle creatures, but now she's wanting to branch off to study more of the Magical creatures. She wants to work with them, you see, not the muggle ones." She had always wanted to work with Elephants, but something had changed her mind.
Kay always remembered Art's beloved Madame Curie. "Yes, it was. It was just wonderful. I got to spend all of my summer with my granddaughter. She turned one, too! Time went so quick, but she's really starting to show her personality more each day." He missed her, even now. He'd been caring for her most of the summer, letting his son and daughter-in-law go on a Summer get-away just together, and caring for her whilst they worked. "She and Madame Curie love each other, too. It's precious. Only, I don't leave them alone together. Liesel doesn't quite understand how to be gentle with Madame Curie. You know, she pulled their cat's tail, and the cat almost scratched her." It had been a very scary moment. "So, I heard from Rosie that you've been spending time together?" Art had been very pleased to hear this. And Laurel, too, he thought. The three girls were wonderful people.
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